Blog: The New Medicare Physician Payment Model under MACRA: Initial Observations – Part 1
Blog: Mark Segal, GE Healthcare - I recently returned from GE Healthcare Digital’s major customer meeting, Centricity LIVE. While at this meeting, which provided many opportunities to speak with customers about their priorities, I presented on the new CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) called for by the 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which sets out a path to value-based Medicare physician payment.
Blog: Health IT, Value-Based Payment, and Innovation: Let’s Get it Right
Blog: Mark Segal, GE Healthcare: Medicare is shifting rapidly to value-based and integrated care. Notably, the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) initiated major changes in Medicare physician payment. In addition to ending the long reviled Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) used to update Medicare professionals’ payments, MACRA creates two new value-based programs, which will rely on interoperable health IT (HIT).
eHealth Initiative 2020 Roadmap Goals Priorities and Areas of Consensus
With eHealth Initiative’s unique position as a neutral entity that brings together representatives across the entire healthcare continuum, the 2020 Roadmap was born with the intention to harmonize the new technologies and models of care in a way that brings about meaningful change that improves population health, increases patient-consumer experiences and lowers costs. eHI members share a unique vision to transform care delivery with patient-centric care by 2020 in 3 key areas: Interoperability, Data Access and Use, and Clinical and Business Motivators.
Avoiding Silos in Healthcare: Empowering Care Coordination Across Settings
Access to relevant patient data integrated with additional information from payers and other sources at the point of care can enable providers to create a more comprehensive longitudinal patient record. With a comprehensive patient record, providers can proactively identify health trends and patterns, moving away from reactive, uncoordinated care and toward more holistic patient care coordination.
2015 ACO Survey Results
Since 2013, eHealth Initiative and Premier, Inc. have surveyed public and commercial accountable care organizations to better understand how ACOs are leveraging health information technology to achieve cost savings and quality improvement. This year's survey is focused on interoperability and data use. A webinar presentation of key findings from the survey was held September 8.
Transforming Healthcare through Collaboration and Clinical Integration
New models of medicine are driving transformation in healthcare. Value-based models and consumer expectations are changing the way we manage the health of a population. Payers are rethinking how to build strong relationships with in-network providers, and how to meet consumer expectations.
Digital Health & Patient Engagement Survey Results: Healthcare’s New Value Drivers
Healthcare consumerism is a relatively new concept, but its growing presence in the market is undeniably real. Patients today expect that their healthcare providers will work collaboratively with them; in fact, that’s one of the ways in which patients now gauge the value of the care they receive. A video recording of the webinar can be downloaded here.
MACRA Quality Payment Program: Key Things to Know and Strategies for Success
Learn about key takeaways from the final rule for the MACRA Quality Payment Program, the role of health IT in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs), and how to prepare for long term success with value-based payment. A video recording of the webinar can be downloaded here.
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